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East to stay in deep freeze into weekend

Cold wave adding misery for victims stricken by Sandy

Utility crews respond to a water-main break that created a large sinkhole in a residential area of Grand Rapids, Mich. The frigid air mass that arrived in the upper Midwest last weekend kept plumbers busy with frozen pipes.

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PORTLAND, Maine — A teeth-chattering cold wave with subzero temperatures is expected to keep its
icy grip on much of the eastern U.S. into the weekend before seasonable temperatures bring
relief.

A polar air mass blamed for multiple deaths in the Midwest moved into the Northeast yesterday,
prompting the National Weather Service to issue wind-chill warnings across upstate New York and
northern New England and creating problems for people still trying to rebound from superstorm
Sandy.

In a storm-damaged neighborhood near the beach on New York City’s Staten Island, people who
haven’t had heat in their homes since the late October storm took refuge in tents set up by aid
workers. The tents were equipped with propane heaters, which were barely keeping up with the cold,
and workers were providing sleeping bags and blankets for warmth.

Eddie Saman is sleeping in one of the tents because the gaping hole in the roof of his home has
rendered it uninhabitable. Heat has been restored to the house, but much of it escapes through the
hole.

“It’s very cold,” Saman said, “and mainly I sleep here next to the heater here.”

In northern New Hampshire, a man who crashed his snowmobile while going over a hill on Tuesday
and spent a “bitterly cold night” injured and alone on a trail died yesterday, the state’s Fish and
Game Department said. Friends went looking for John Arsenault of Shelburne when he didn’t show up
for work and found him unconscious yesterday morning. He died later at a hospital, authorities
said.

The Canadian air mass that arrived in the upper Midwest over the weekend forced schools to
close, delayed commuter trains and subways and kept plumbers busy with frozen pipes. A ski resort
in New Hampshire shut down yesterday because of unsafe ski conditions: a predicted wind chill of 48
degrees below zero.

The coldest conditions were expected yesterday and today, after which temperatures should slowly
moderate before returning to normal, said John Koch, a meteorologist with the National Weather
Service regional headquarters in Bohemia, N.Y. For the most part, temperatures have been around 10
to 15 degrees below normal, with windy conditions making it feel colder, he said.

In northern Maine, the temperature dipped to as low as 36 below zero yesterday morning. The
weather service was calling for wind chills as low as minus 45.